Device for permanent hair waves



Apmazy 1939 s. LUPES 1,755,221

DEVICE FOR PERMANENT HAIR WAVES Filed Jan. 24, 1929 5 TfF/vf/Y A UPfS,

IBM/975220753 WXWW base plate which bear against theinner walls PatentedApr. 22, 1930 PATENT; OFFICE STEPHEN LUPES, OF YORK, N. Y.

DEVICE FOR PERMANENT HAIR WAVES Application filed January 24,1929.Serial No. 884,688.

My present invention relates to the art of hair dressing and moreparticularly to the construction of a Marcel waving unit for formingpermanent waves or curls in the hair.

In practice a Marcel or permanent waving machine is constituted by a setor number of individual separately handled waving elements, eachconnected b a suspension cord or wire with a metal ring or support, thenumber of such units being about twenty, more or less.

The object ,of the invention is to provide an improved Marcel wavingunit having means whereby the hair may be formed in well defined, deepset, and gracefully curved permanent waves, eliminating sharp bends toobviate breakin or rupture of the hair strands following the eating andfixing operation of the device, thus providing at once a real permanentwave requiring no after treatment such as finger curling and the like.

A feature of the construction is found in shown in Fig. 1 to moreclearly disclose an providing for each hair waying unit, an elongatedbody, preferably of rectangular cross section, provided for the greaterpart of its length with a heating chamber separated by a cross wall froman exhaust chamber, but being n communication one with the other throughan axial ort, so that excess steam or vapors may pass rom heatingchamber in the operation of the device. Y a

A shallow jacket chamber surrounds the heating chamber and is adapted tocarry and able covers to retain heat therein.

Another important feature of my invention resides in the constructionand conformation of an improved hair carrying core, constituted by abase plate having staggered recesses formed in its opposite sides and aprojecting finger piece provided with a longitudinal slot or kerf inwhich a tuft of hair is first caught prior to being coiled or threadedaround a series or number of staggered posts formed at their ends withconfining lugs, extending longitudinally of said base plate.

Centering springs are also provided on the toe cover for the forimpeding exhaust gases, and a jacket of the heating chamber when thecore is in its operative position.

Various refinements may be made in the composition and configuration ofthe component elements going to make up thehair waving machine unitwithout departing from the scope of the invention and no limitation isintended by the phraseology of the following description except asindicated in the appended claim. 7 I

In the drawin s similar reference charac- .ters are employef todesignate corresponding parts throughout the several views in which:

Fig. 1 is a ladys head showing how a tuft of hair is prepared for wavingin my improved unit and said view further shows another tuft as waved bymy improvement.

. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section of my improved permanentwaving unit, showing a tuft of hair coiled or threadedon the posts ofthe wave setting core.

Fig. 3 1s a bottom end view of the unit asbestos cover for that end ofthe device.

Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the improved hair setting coreemployed.

Fig. 5 is a detail perspective of an asbesopen end of the heatingchamber.

Referring nowto the drawings in detail, I show at 10 my improvedpermanent waving unit which embodies an elongated body 11,

provided with a heating chamber 12, an exhouse an electric heatingdevice or coil, the exhaust and the jacket chambers having suithaustchamber 13 containing loose cotton 13,

chamber 14 surrbunding said heating cham-' ber and separated therefromby a side wall 15.

The heating and exhaust chambers 12 and 13 are separated by a cross wall16, for-med with an upwardly or outwardly directed tubular nipple 17,the bore 18 of which providing a passage through which excess steam,vapors or gases may escape from'the heating chamber to the exhaustchamber and any moisture formed by condensation may be retained in thelatter.

An electric heating coil 19 having appropriate conductor connections 20,maybe confined in the jacket chamber which-serves to heat the hairreceiving or heating chamber 12 through the heat conducting side wall15.

The jacket chamber 14 may be tightly closed by an insulating cap 21resting on a packing 22 and held down by screws 23. The exhaust chamber13 may also be closed by a cap 24.- provided with interior grooves orpassages 25 for the escape of excess gases as shown in Fig. 2 of thedrawings.

The permanent waving'unit 10 may be held in suspension by a cord or wire26, attached to a screw-eye 27 and be manipulated in the hand bygrasping the heat insulating cap 21.

An important part of my invention is present in a novel hair settingcore, which embodies a base plate 28, a slotted finger extension 29,posts 30, formed with longitudinally extending confining lugs 31, at thetops thereof, said posts being arranged in stag-.

gered relation at the opposite sides of base plate 28, and centrallyarranged anchor posts 32 and 33 havin confining shoulders 34' at theirtops to con me the end portion of a tuft of hair against outwardmovement.

In practice, a tuft of hair is selected and tied as shown at 40 in Fig.1, after which it is coiled or threaded around or over the posts 30,32,. 33 of the setting core, a fixing solution is then applied to thehair after which the whole may, if desired, be wra ped in asbestos orother cloth to which a xing solution is applied before inserting intothe heating cham er of the permanent waving device. When the treatmentis finished the core with its tuft of hair is removed from said chamberafter which the hair is removed from the setting core, the result ofsuch treatment being shown at 41 in Fig. 1 disclosing a beautifullycurved permanent wave with uniform loops and no sharp bends obviatingrupturing strains.

The mouth of the heating chamber 12 may be closed by a U-shaped asbestoscover 35 stiffened by a looped wire 36.

To properly center the inner end of the core 28, with respect to theheatin chamber 12, I provide spring arms 37 which bear against the innerwalls of said chamber when said core is in its normal operativeposition.

What I claim as new, is: i

A permanent waving unit of the class del scribed including a hairsetting core comprising a base plate formed with staggered side postshaving confining lugs at thetops thereof, centrally arranged anchorposts and 0ppositely directed spring arms for the purpose set forth.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York, and State of New York,this 21st day of January, A. D. 1929.

STEPHEN LUPES.

